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Crypto is a wild space. $BTC is why I joined the space almost a decade ago. I played around with $ETH, $SOL, $XLM, $ADA, and more.. but was ultimately drawn back to $BTC. Dumping the rest. The Bitcoin ethos is what drew me. I realized nothing else really captured that, other than things like $DOGE - it’s a stretch, I know. I started looking for better versions of the Nakamoto Consensus. I found $LTC. Much better! But even with the increased block rate, it was still on a linear chain. The revolutionary blockchain. Security was there, decentralization was there. But it has the scalability limitations that Bitcoin has. It’s just a “sped up bitcoin.” We’ve all seen non-stop stories and claims that “this new crypto currency is the new $BTC.. the Bitcoin killer,” but it never turned out to hold that same $BTC ethos.. it was always missing something. Fair launch? PoW? Decentralized? Secure? Something was always missing. Enter Kaspa. When I first heard about $KAS on @CryptosR_Us I rolled my eyes. I remember thinking “it’s just another so called better Bitcoin.” It had never been true before so I ignored it for over a year. Then a friend at work mentioned it. He explained it has all the $BTC attributes that we love. Fair launch, proof of work security mechanism, fully decentralized, and this time actually scalable due to an infrastructure rework. It was a BlockDAG not a blockchain. This is the key distinction that made it truly different. Not just a faster linear chain, like $LTC. No wasted work. No orphans. All blocks are included in the chain. Blocks are produced in parallel. The protocol and nodes are developed in the same way they are for Bitcoin.. by the community led by some visionaries… but must be accepted by those running the standalone nodes. Nodes that anyone can run on an old laptop.. even today. There is so much more, but the more I studied, the more I realized $KAS is what I’ve been looking for all this time. I ignored the flaws baked into the $BTC infrastructure. I formed biased opinions that defended $BTC, such as “we don’t need to do day to day small transactions on the L1. That’s just for final settlement.” This is a view I had because I had to have it. $KAS proves that’s not the case. You can have ALL of your transactions recorded on the L1 base chain / ledger. Why outsource this to a centralized L2? The Bitcoin paper title: “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” Not “Bitcoin: A Store of Value” or “Bitcoin: Only use this to finalize a push all day to day to an L2.” Kaspa taught me more about the fundamentals of Bitcoin. Believers in $BTC are believers in $KAS. Bitcoins, advantage? It’s the first mover and has a dedicated and loyal base. I was that base. Then I looked into $KAS. Study Kaspa. 📚